Exhaustion and annihilator classification for nonzero Whittaker modules of the Witt algebra

Let wn\mathfrak{w}_n be the Witt algebra with positive nilpotent subalgebra n+\mathfrak{n}_+, and let L(λ,μ)L(\lambda,\mu) be the modules constructed in Theorem 91 from parameters satisfying the theorem's hypothesis; assume λ0\lambda\neq0. Witt-algebra classification conjecture. These modules constitute an exhaustive list of simple Whittaker modules with λ0\lambda\neq0 for the Whittaker pair (wn,n+)(\mathfrak{w}_n,\mathfrak{n}_+). Moreover,

L(λ,μ)L(λ,μ)L(\lambda,\mu)\cong L(\lambda,\mu')

if and only if

AnnU(g)M(μ)=AnnU(g)M(μ).\operatorname{Ann}_{U(\mathfrak{g})}M^-(-\mu)=\operatorname{Ann}_{U(\mathfrak{g})}M^-(-\mu').

The conjecture would classify all nonzero-parameter simple Whittaker modules and identify their isomorphism classes through annihilators of the corresponding opposite Verma modules. The source gives no evidence of resolution.

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Primary source

Punita Batra and Volodymyr Mazorchuk, “Blocks and modules for Whittaker pairs”, arXiv:0910.3540 (2009).

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